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Managing Innovation: A Process Perspective

Markou, Panos

OM-1805 | Published April 15, 2024 | 6 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

This technical note provides a framework on innovation as a process (“how”), rather than just an outcome (“what”). It explains that innovation is a set of activities, incentives, and metrics that, whe... Read More

ZS Associates: Refilling the Pipeline

Markou, Panos; Grushka-Cockayne, Yael; Chao, Raul O.; Hattem, Joshua

OM-1775 | Published September 01, 2022 | 16 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

ZS Associates, a global consultancy, has been hired by the head of marketing at the global pharmaceutical firm Rensselaer to identify a promising strategy to protect and grow Rensselaer’s oncology bus... Read More

Product–Market Alignment

Markou, Panos; Chao, Raul O.; Goldberg, Rebecca; Katz, Arnon; Kelly, A. Morgan

OM-1706 | Published April 19, 2022 | 12 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

The ability to achieve product–market alignment (PMA) differentiates businesses that will thrive from those that will fail. Yet many find it difficult to create—and sustain—products that continuously ... Read More

Product Development at StubHub: Don't Stop Believin'

Markou, Panos; Chao, Raul O.; Goldberg, Rebecca

OM-1705 | Published April 18, 2022 | 12 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

Arnie Katz, chief product and technology officer at StubHub (SH), was helping to lead a contest intended to result in innovative and valuable new ideas. Product managers presented more than 100 new bu... Read More

Process Analysis Simulation

Markou, Panos

OM-1718 | Published December 16, 2020 | 5 pages Exercise

Collection: Darden School of Business

This interactive exercise emulates a process wherein a virtual Card is created in a series of steps. It can be used to expose students to ideas and concepts in process analysis, management, and improv... Read More